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In l.a. this afternoon. the u.s. district court in downtown l.a. her husband, mossimo giannulli, also made an appearance yesterday. here and his wife facing to mail and wire fraud. this cheating scam broadly involved wealthy parents, ceos, winemaker, the aforementioned actresses, of course. they paid the mastermind of this scheme, william "rick" singer, of california. he pled guilty in boston yesterday. they paid millions to cheat the system overall, through either fake tests or faced dont act f...

I dont really care about school as you guys all know. [laughter] carley: she did apologize for that because at the time people were criticizing her. and if you check out her instagram even though she said she didnt want to go to college. she is making a profit off of it. she partnered with amazon prime she is officially a college student and she got everything that she needed for her dorm room in just two days using amazon at prime student. ainsley: she didnt know her parents were doing this i f...

Say singer was providing. >> were talking about deception and fraud, fake test scores, fake athletic credentials, fake photographs, bribed college officials. >> reporter: singer today pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including racketeering and conspiracy to defraud. >> singer and his associates used stock photos that they pulled off the internet, sometimes photoshopping the face of the child onto the picture of the athlete. >> reporter: prosecutors say one family paid singer $1.2 million, he,...

Interesting. i think there is probably consensus and i think most people, everybody will agree what these families have done is wrong and it is morally wrong and legally wrong. there are ways in which the university ies defend what they do. if you take that example of crude for one example, that was fraud. you know if you can imagine what it would take to actually get recruited to row on the crew team, it would mean being in a place where you could learn crew. most teenagers in the united states...

Charged with? >> reporter: you guys should know, loughlin has been reported to be in federal custody. shell face that court date later on this afternoon. the charges shes facing are basically conspiracy to commit mail fraud, but the accusations much more interesting, much more volatile, much more unbelievable. she and her fashion designer husband are accused of spending more than $500,000 to have both of their older daughter and younger daughter be designated as, essentially, student athletes, b...

Housewives star fleft huffman who was in court and posted $50,000 bond. joining me steve patterson outside the courthouse in l.a. lets talk about lori loughlin. she was taken into custody, out of the country when this went down yesterday. what more do we know about her involvement. >> were told lori loughlin was scheduled in just a few hours. she was in canada at the time the charges were read off and quickly made arrangements to turn herself in. were told she and her fashion designer husband ar...

For elite schools. >> nine coaches are charged here. of the schools only one was charged at ufc two of them grabs headlines at this hour. huff its man who allegedly arrested this morning and paid $15,000 to help her daughter cheat. also laughlin is expected to land at any moment now. she and her husband are also mentioned in this complaint they tried to get their two daughters even noting one of them that she was at the low end of the admissions there. the complaint says allegedly with the help ...

And thats incredibly sad. >> here is scholarship part, which involves a lot of coaches, the u.s. attorney talking about the athletic scholarship scam. >> coaches would use slots their schools had allocated to them for recruitment of athletes, instead to take the applicants singer had identified. singer helped parents take staged photographs of their children, engaged in particular sports. other times, singer and his associates use stock photos they pulled off the internet, sometimes photoshoppin...

Georgetown and other elite colleges. paid the money to william singer. the college network. singer has already pleaded guilty would funnel the money to coaches and cleaning administrators to make kids look like star athletes. singer also hired ringers to take or correct sat and act tests for students and bribe the testing centers to alter the score. here is the fbi. >> this is a case flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to sheet the system so they could set their children up for success wit...

Of paying $500,000 to have their two daughters labeled as recruits to the usc crew team. neither of those daughters ever took part in that sport. this was a wide-ranging scheme, one essentially run by a company that was run out of newport beach, california, by a man called william singer. he pleaded guilty earlier today to racketeering. we assume he has given the feds much of the evidence on which all of these charges are based. we will now have the 13 here in l.a. arraigned. we have not seen fe...